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EPILOGUE

Miranda

We spent the first weekend that ere reunited mostly in bed at Beckett’s penthouse apartment Beckett cancelled his appointments Friday afternoon and we sat with his uncle Col Colm’s questions about hoe met and what my family did in Topsail Beach

When ent to Beckett’s apartot through the door before he had me naked and in bed with him

We didn’t leave his apartet fresh creaels from a deli around the corner

“We’ll be like John Lennon and Yoko Ono,” Beckett said with a laugh, as we didn’t even bother to get dressed on Sunday, and ordered in because his fridge was bare We didn’t even want to get dressed

Those first few days were spent going over everything that each of us could remember about our shared past He told me about his DARPA contract to develop a new co with Special Activities Division and so his presence in Afghanistan – and especially the breach into Iran – was classified How he had very few realthe IED and crash except for seeing Dan’s face and the immediate aftermath of the crash when Dan’s tea recovery back in a VA hospital in New York

I told hi that Dan had died, and after the funeral How I had fallen apart and spent the first couple ofold ht

“You felt guilty that you survived,” I said si how hard it was for those who lived to accept it

He nodded “Friends wanted , but it see depressed”

We held each other and talked in quiet voices about how lonely we’d both been in theour fathers, and both our romantic partners

Beckett felt as if he failed Sue, being unable to save her life, despite getting her to the nearest hospital in record ti had been too close to her heart and there was nothing anyone could do

I was unable to go to school that fall and winter, taking a year’s leave of absence to re

cover

We shared hoe each coped with our losses in the afterain, and ain